Ekiga and SIP to replace Skype

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Jun 022011
 

EkigaIn a former article I’ve talked about the XMPP:Jingle protocol to find a good replacement for Skype.
Some people asked me about Ekiga, is this a good software or not ? and how you can use it ?

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet.
It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality.
It is interoperable with many other standard compliant softwares, hardwares and service providers as it uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323).
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The best articles of April 2011

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Jun 012011
 

hard-disk

This is the top 7 articles for the month of April 2011.

7 – Check your disk usage with df and du

As system administrator , but also as common user on my PC, one of the more common problem is the fill up at 100% of a filesystem.
So, in this article we’ll see 2 commands that can help us in keeping under control or check the space used in every filesystem and in his directory.

df : report file system disk space usage

du: estimate file space usage
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Anki – An alternative learning program

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May 312011
 

ankiEver heard of Anki ?
No ???

Well, get ready to see a great open source program for learning, I’ve started using it and I’ve been amazed by this little gem.
Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
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Linux 3.0-rc1

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May 312011
 

tux 3.0Linus Torvalds has announced to the world that the next Kernel release will be the 3.0:

From Linus Torvalds <>
Date Sun, 29 May 2011 18:30:32 -0700
Subject Linux 3.0-rc1
Yay! Let the bikeshed painting discussions about version numbering begin (or at least re-start).

I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse
enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40

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